Best points (and TV works, hooray)

 Good news!  The TV is finally working.  I set husband up in front of youtube on the computer, watching some 'how to' videos to do with satellite tv/freesat systems, and he found out what he needed - another part to buy, cheap enough at just £15.  He got it, set it up on the satellite dish and hey presto, it worked.  Thank goodness for that, he was doing my head in going on and on about it.  I'd like to say that we now have a working landline phone too, but sadly not.  At least I now have wifi calling enabled on my smartphone - I have no idea how that works, but apparently it does, according to both my friend and the BT engineer who called last week.  I haven't needed to make any phone calls yet, but no doubt I'll have to ring those idiots BT yet again in the next few days, if our landline still fails to work.

We've got a few things on this week - today we have to go and get a refund from Toolstation, for the towel rail that, for some obscure reason, they delivered to our old house (rather than us collecting it from the shop, as they told us we would need to do) - so it now could be anywhere.  Also to drop the registration forms into the GP surgery.  And look for a towel rail somewhere else.  Tomorrow it's the Christmas buffet thing at the community centre here, hosted by the lovely housing support officer Hannah, who we've just found out is leaving, although she's bringing along the new person to introduce to us all.  And it's an opportunity for us to get to know some of the other residents here.  Wednesday morning, first thing, I'm going shopping for our Christmas and New Year food, and lots of cheap veggies....I don't intend to go shopping again until some time in January.  And I'll be on a cost-cutting drive from January onwards, to build our savings up again.  Moving house is an expensive business.

So what are the best points about this place?  Well, for a start, the peace.....as I said yesterday, it's really very quiet here.  The shower room is wonderful - not having to climb in and out of a bath to have a shower is such a pleasure, and the water pressure here is so much greater than it was at the old house, so it's bliss to have a level, powerful and hot shower.  I'm still not keen on the much higher toilet (raised up on a plinth), but dare say I'll get used to it.  My bedroom is lovely, bigger than my previous one and with lots of built in storage space, and room for my craft desk.  Husband's room is smaller, but he has plenty of built in storage too, he's content with it.  Nice big airing cupboard, which is currently full of moving boxes which still need unpacking, but none of it is urgent (although I needed my address book for Christmas cards yesterday and realised it's packed away in one of those boxes).  I like both the front and back gardens, both low maintenance (the front lawn is mown by the Housing Association's contract gardeners) - I've discovered there are bulbs beginning to pop up in the back garden, so it'll be nice to see Spring flowers next year.  There are some nice shrubs in the borders too, and a rockery with alpine plants right in front of the kitchen window.  I can't wait to get stuck into the garden next year, I'll be putting some pots of flowers and shrubs out the front as well as the back.  And the neighbours we've met so far, especially the ones next door and the old chap directly opposite us, all seem very friendly and welcoming.  We both think we're going to be really happy living here....Betty seems to be settling down too.